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US 2026/0223982 A1Published application
Grounded sports shoe
AssigneeN-Ion Sports Technology Limited
InventorsAdam STANLEY, Stephen WALSH
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Abstract
The sport shoe for grounding the human body to earth includes an upper portion; a sole having an outer sole face distal from a user and an inner sole face proximate to the user; one or more electrically conductive portions which extend through the sole from the outer sole face to the inner sole face; and an electrically conductive layer which extends over a portion of the inner sole face and being configured to make conductive contact with the foot of the human body.
Claims6
A sports shoe for grounding a human body to earth, comprising:
- an upper;
- a sole having an outer sole face distal to said upper and an inner sole face proximate to said upper;
- a plurality of electrically conductive portions, each electrically conductive portion extending through said sole from said outer sole face toward said inner sole face;
- and
- an electrically conductive layer extending over a portion of said inner sole face,
- wherein each electrically conductive portion is comprised of a threaded screw stud and a body portion,
- wherein said threaded screw stud is comprised of a shaft being disposed through said body portion, said body portion and said shaft outwardly projecting from said outer sole face so as to form an electrical conduction path to ground relationship from said inner sole face to said shaft through said electrically conductive layer,
- wherein said sole comprises a plurality of stud receiving portions corresponding to each respective electrically conductive portion of said plurality of electrically conductive portions, and
- wherein said threaded screw stud is further comprised of a threaded end removably engaged with said sole structure at one end of said shaft;
- and an exposed ground contacting portion end opposite said threaded end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.